Sentences with phrase «powerful computer models»

Their powerful computer model can predict how many merging binary black holes LIGO might detect: potentially 100 forged in the cores of these dense star clusters per year.
Piero Carninci at the RIKEN Yokohama Institute's Omics Science Center in Japan, and colleagues, combined powerful computer modelling with «deep sequencing» — a process which decodes huge numbers of DNA sequences to discover...
Latham has been collaborating with the UK Meteorological Office to test the theory behind his project using their powerful computer model of global climate.
They revised their predictions, saying that they had created a new, more powerful computer model for predicting the future.

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Oracle is banking more on what techies call a «scale - up» model in which fewer, but very powerful computers — in Exadata's case each with its own integrated networking and storage — take on big workloads.
While most gamers would have laughed a few years ago if you suggested using a laptop, some of todays models are powerful enough to handle your intense graphic rich games at a price that is often more affordable than a desktop computer.
The team's computer modelling of the Komodo bite suggests a relatively weak bite — a maximum bite force of 39 newtons, compared to 252 N for an Australian saltwater crocodile of the same size — but the powerful neck and razor - sharp teeth are ideal for a slashing attack.
Mausumi Dikpati and her colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used new observations of the sun's interior and new computer simulations to model the flow of plasma, or electrically charged gas, that carry the sunspots like a conveyor belt until they become powerful enough to burst free and erupt on the sun's surface.
Although meteorologists now rely heavily on computer models (numerical weather prediction), it is still relatively common to use techniques and conceptual models that were developed before computers were powerful enough to make predictions accurately or efficiently.
Until recently there was no computer powerful enough to take all our knowledge of the brain and apply it to a model.
But that might be the perfect model for a radically more powerful kind of computer.
Plentiful online scientific databases offer terabytes of data for scientists to mine with their desktop computers, while model genera like Drosophila (fruit flies) are available for experiments in increasingly powerful laboratory spaces.
Even such simplified models involve calculations that require several days of computation in one of the Weizmann Institute's powerful computer clusters.
Dr Philip Cox, of the Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, a joint research centre of the University's Department of Archaeology and HYMS, used computer modelling to estimate how powerful the bite of Josephoartigasia could be.
With powerful computing we combined thousands of X-rays and produced computer models reconstructing the growth of the first teeth.»
In the past decade, powerful new x-ray scans and three - dimensional computer models have transformed the analysis of ancient bones, teeth, and shells.
New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as computer models that run on more powerful supercomputers.
To achieve their 4500 - atom model, the researchers benefited from access to the world's third - most - powerful computer — Piz Daint — which is located at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano and can perform up to 20 million billion operations per second.
Powerful advances are also being made in using computer networks to model neuron biology and to build complex neuronal networks, which should produce interesting emergent properties.
With a quantum computer, APL researchers have now shown that these calculations can be done much faster and model much more complex objects than would be possible using even on the most powerful classical supercomputers.
STORAGE In 1980 even a powerful personal computer like the Apple II Plus did not come with a hard drive; at $ 1,500 for a 5 megabyte model, the drives cost more than the computer itself.
Designers on opposite sides of the world will soon be able to work on the same 3 - D computer model using ordinary personal computers linked by ordinary phone lines, rather than powerful graphics workstations.
After observing the spicules through a powerful telescope, scientists were able to formulate a computer model of what is actually happening in the corona of the Sun.
For this study, the researchers could only make computer models of the atmosphere as we don't currently have telescopes that are powerful enough to actually «see» the chemicals it contains, but when the next - generation Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) eventually goes online, we'll be able to scan exoplanets» atmospheres to see what they're really made of.
No matter how powerful the computer used or how impressive the model output, any model of a natural system is only as good as the authors» understanding of the interaction between the physical laws that define their subject and the potential of simple small - scale interactions to produce large - scale complexity, more readily summarised as:
The data must be analyzed using sophisticated model atmospheres created by the team in 3D and included complex calculations that run for weeks on powerful super computers.
With a magnification tool powerful enough to complete one continuous zoom from an altitude of 38,000 miles to as low as 25 feet, and an ever - expanding network of related resources, it's a practically limitless teaching tool — that is, for schools with the high - speed Internet access and late - model computers they'll need to run the program.
The car is due in dealerships this spring.The $ 69,500 car features a larger, more powerful engine than current naturally aspirated 911 models, a computer - controlled all - wheel - drive system and suspension refinements, wrapped in an aerodynamically refined 911 - style body.
The $ 69,500 car features a larger, more powerful engine than current naturally aspirated 911 models, a computer - controlled all - wheel - drive system and suspension refinements, wrapped in an aerodynamically refined 911 - style body.
As with the A3 Sportback 1.8 TFSI and 2.0 TDI Ambition models, which both cost $ 42,500, the more powerful and better equipped A3 sedans add 17 - inch alloys, aluminium window surrounds, door sills and cabin highlights, sports front seats, a sports steering wheel, more extensive trip computer and the four - mode Audi Drive Select system, which changes the car's throttle, steering and transmission response.
I think an hybrid model, half human and half computer, using the vastness and precision of computers while having the option to inject the most basic nuances and happenstances would be the most powerful GCM ever.
The second argument is that it is claimed that computer models are now powerful and accurate enough to replicate temperature given the inputs of greenhouse gas forcing and natural forcing (this is what Nordhaus shows in footnote 4) a graph with both is much more accurate than with just natural forcing.
Using a computer model of wave - induced current stresses, the team estimated how powerful currents would need to be for forces they exert at the sea floor to exceed a «critical force» that triggers sediment suspensions and could lead to underwater mudslides.
Climate models, run on powerful computers which use decades of past and present climate data to simulate how climate will behave, or has in the past, are the most accurate and reliable source of information on potential future climate change.
In the 1970s they made rapid progress in formulating abstract mathematical models and putting the powerful new computers to work.
Abstract: Computer Modelling is a powerful tool in climate sciences.
Today, when scientists run complex climate models on powerful computers to simulate immeasurably more complex natural systems like the earth's climate, we must not forget our commitment to truth or that «key to science.»
There is the assumption that faster more powerful computers, allowing more parameters, more money, will somehow give «better» models.
If we do all that and run one of the models on the world's most powerful computer, we may have a model on which we have confidence.
There are things that we can never model, no matter how powerful the computers or complex the programs.
And increasingly powerful computers can allow a better understanding of the uncertainties in our models, finer model grids and more sophisticated descriptions of the processes that occur within them.
This is simple, but extremely difficult, because the models must be run over a much longer time than can reasonably be done by the most powerful super computer, or so I have read.
By 1979 the ever more powerful computers had confirmed that it was impossible to construct a model that could mimick the current climate and that did not warm up a few degrees....
It does not matter how powerful the computer running the models is if the models are wrong.
Both of these computer offer different models that allow users to opt for more powerful processors and larger storage.
If I were to advise them on a computer purchase, I would advise that they buy a more powerful model then they received.
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